Neelam Saxena Chandra, India

Introducing  : Neelam Saxena Chandra is an Indian Railway Officer, working as Chief Electrical Engineer at Mumbai. She is an Engineering graduate from VNIT and has done her Post Graduation Diploma in IM&HRD and also in Finance. She has completed a summer course in Finance from the London School of Economics. She has authored 7 novels, 9 short story collections, 37 poetry collections and 15 children’s books, to her credit. More than 2000 of her stories/poems/articles have been published in various international/national journals/magazines etc. She is a bilingual writer; writing in English and Hindi. She holds a record with the Limca Book of Records -2015 for being the Author having the highest number of publications in a year in English and Hindi. She has won a prize in a poetry contest organized by American Embassy & Arushi (awarded by Gulzar Sahib), Award by Women’s Web for fiction writing,  Award in a National poetry contest organized by Poetry Council of India, 2016, Award for writing for children by Children’s Book Trust, awarded a prize for her fiction by Women’s Web, etc. She has received, Sohanlal Dwivedi Puraskar for children’s literature by Maharashtra state Hindi Sahitya Akademi for the year 2018, Humanity International Women Achiever Awards 2018, Bharat Nirman Literary Award in 2017, Premchand Award (Twice) by Ministry of Railways, Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Award, Soninder Samman, Shabdshree Samman, Freedom award by Radio city for Lyrics along with other awards and honors. She was listed in Forbes as one among 78 most popular authors in the country in 2014. Her poem was also placed at no 7 in a contest organized by NAMI (NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness, USA) in 2021.

yellow of the leaf
stained with the brown of the mud
even death not clean!

June 17th 2023